"
"Or me!" Kitty broke in. "Oh, I've have given a--a tube of chrome yellow
to see you!"
"--but we've made the Row look like nineteen cents in a country where they
don't use money. See you've got the fossils." Cadge nodded towards the
papers I had been reading. "But the _Star's_ worth the whole--now
where the mischief--"
"Cadge! Show me!"
From the black bag she drew several sheets of paper, upon each of which
was pasted a cutting from a newspaper, with pencilled notes in the margin;
a handkerchief, a bunch of keys, six pointed pencils, a pen-knife, a
purse, rather lean, a photograph of two kittens.
"There," she said, relieved at sight of these, "knew I couldn't have lost
'em. Brooklyn woman left 'em $5,000 in her will. They'll stand me in a
good little old half column. Now--where--ah, here you are!"
She unfolded a _Star_ clipping and proudly spread it upon my knee.
"There, Princess! That's the real thing!"
I caught my breath at the staring headlines.
BEAUTY OF A WOMAN THREATENS A PANIC AT THE OPERA HOUSE.
PRESENCE OF MISS HELEN WINSHIP CREATES SENSATION THAT MIGHT HAVE RESULTED
IN A PERILOUS STAMPEDE.
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